COMPETITIONS AS FIELDS OF SOCIAL PRACTICES AND ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISMS: REFRAMING ARCHITECTURAL THEMES IN TURKEY, 1950-1980

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2025-1-06

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Özalp, Öncü

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Competitions accommodated social practices, which enabled collaborations among architects, fostered the development of architectural criticism, and encouraged intersubjective design dialogues during the post-war period in Turkey. Besides their contributions to the advancement of thinking post-war architecture; disputes and severe conflicts occurred between numerous participants in the conduction and development of this professional practice. Since architectural competitions have been treated as isolated and discrete practices in existing scholarly literature, this dissertation critically engages with competitions as contested fields and aims to analyse their contributions to the formation of post-war Architectural Modernisms by giving precedence to their inherent complexities and multiplicities. This approach involves examining their relationships with educational institutions and organizing bodies responsible for arranging competitions. Following this, the dissertation constructs its research archive through a long-term investigative study on second-hand bookstores and conducts in-depth interviews with architects. By adopting Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts titled the field, habitus, and forms of capital, the dissertation examines the continuously altering positions of architects and institutions in their struggles in the competition field. Also, it analyses unrealized competition prizes as intersubjective design tissues, through which Architectural Modernisms were re-interpreted. By tracing recurring themes in the jury reports and examining large-scale architectural competitions, the research outcome offers the conceptualizations titled degrees of standardizations and degrees of experimentations as two conflicting field-altering forces. It asserts that framing the tensions between these two forces is central to the formation of post-war Architectural Modernisms.

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Post-war Architectural Competitions, Modernisms in Architecture, Field, Habitus, Architectural Education

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/113464

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis